(A) (1) The owner(s) of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes, situated within the county and abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way in which there is now located or may in the future be located a public sanitary sewer of the county, is hereby required at the owner’s expense to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities directly with the public sewer in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, within 90 days after date of official notice to do so; provided that, said public sewer is within 500 feet (152.5 meters) of the property line; provided, the plot of land, is less than five acres; provided, a plot of land is five to ten acres, sewer connection will be required if the public sewer line is within 250 feet of the property line.
(2) Connection to public sewer will be offered, but not required for owners of plots of land which exceed ten acres.
(3) Upon subdivision of any acreage, all resulting and existing lots are required to meet this regulation based on their size and property line distance from the public sewer as stated above.
(B) It shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other facility intended or used for the disposal of wastewater where public sanitary sewer service is available, as defined in division (A) above, except as provided for in §§ 54.30 and 54.31 of this chapter.
(C) At such time as a public sewer becomes available to a property served by a private wastewater disposal system, a direct connection shall be made to the public system within 90 days in compliance with this chapter, and any septic tanks, cesspools and similar private wastewater disposal facilities shall be cleaned of sludge and filled with suitable material or salvaged and removed.
(D) Mandatory public sewer connection may be waived when an existing extreme physical condition such as a road, railroad crossing or cliff presents an undue burden on the property owner(s).
(Ord. 14 (2001), passed 7-19-2001; Ord. 12-2002, passed 11-1-2002) Penalty, see § 54.99